2014 ESPN college football announcing teams

Niskayuna native Joe Tessitore will work with his third different game analyst in four years when ESPN begins its college football coverage at the end of the month.

Tessitore, who also will serve as host of the SEC Network’s “SEC Nation” studio show, will call weekly primetime games on ESPN, ESPN2 or ABC with analyst Brock Huard and reporter Shannon Spake. Tessitore worked the past two years with Matt Millen, who was demoted to a team led by Bob Wischusen, and did Friday games in 2011.

The pairings:

SATURDAYS

Game Telecast

Play-by-play

Analyst

Reporter

Saturday Night Football

Chris Fowler

Kirk Herbstreit

Heather Cox

ESPN College Football Primetime

Brad Nessler

Todd Blackledge

Holly Rowe

ESPN or ESPN2 Prime Time

Joe Tessitore

Brock Huard

Shannon Spake

ESPN, ESPN2 or ABC

Mark Jones

Rod Gilmore

Jessica Mendoza

ESPN, ESPN2 or ABC

Sean McDonough

Chris Spielman

Todd McShay

ESPN, ESPN2 or ABC

Dave Pasch

Brian Griese

Tom Luginbill

ESPN, ESPN2 or ABC

Beth Mowins

Joey Galloway

Paul Carcaterra

ESPN, ESPN2 or ABC

Mike Patrick

Ed Cunningham

Jeannine Edwards

ESPN, ESPN2 or ABC

Bob Wischusen

Matt Millen

Quint Kessenich

ESPNU

Anish Shroff

Kelly Stouffer

Cara Capuano

ESPNU

Adam Amin

John Congemi

ESPNU

Clay Matvick

Anthony Becht

ESPNews

Eamon McAnaney

Dan Hawkins

ESPNews

Mike Couzens

Rene Ingoglia

ESPN Radio

Bill Rosinski

David Norrie

Joe Schad

WEEKDAYS

Game Telecast

Play-by-play

Analyst

Reporter

ESPN Thursday

Rece Davis

Jesse Palmer

Samantha Ponder

David Pollack

ESPN or ESPN2 Friday

Dave Flemming

Danny Kanell

Allison Williams

ESPN or ESPN2 Tuesday/Wednesday

Dave Lamont

Desmond Howard

ESPNU Thursday (HBCU)

Mark Neely

Jay Walker

SEC NETWORK

Game Telecast

Play-by-play

Analyst

Reporter

SEC Network

Brent Musburger

Jesse Palmer

Maria Taylor

SEC Network

Dave Neal

Andre Ware

Laura Rutledge

SEC Network

Tom Hart

Matt Stinchcomb

Heather Mitts

Pete Dougherty

2 Responses

1) McAnaney and Kessenich should be tossed from the air for their shoddy, and supposedly discriminatory coverage of UAlbany Lacrosse, especially the Thompsons as they only seem to care about the big boys, along with letting their emptions control the telecast.

2) Surprised that Gushberger is still around after 40 years. He should’ve retired some time ago.

3) Mike Patrick is another announcer who I think has to retire soon since he’s also been doing it for over 30 years.

Back in 2006, when Al Michaels left ABC/ESPN for NBC, Mike Patrick should have been able to return to calling NFL games for ESPN. Eight years later, I still wouldn’t have a problem with bringing Patrick back to the NFL and have Mike Tirico call college football regular season games.